Improvement in dash-boards



-J'. DERRIG.

IDASHBOARDS. No. 179,532. Patented July 4,1876.

W 1101680 es Invenior:

N-FETERS. PNDTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D;

UNITED STATES '11 OFF JAMES DERRIG, OF AKRON, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT I' N DASH-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,532, dated July 4, 1876; application filed April 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAuEs DERRIG, of the city of Akron, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented an Improvement in Buggy-Dash-Top ltods, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents part of a buggy-dash, constructed, in the ordinary manner, of an iron frame,A A, and leather covering B, stitched thereon, and surmount-ed with the dash-rod O. This rod 0, technically termed a molding, is a strip of sheet metal turned nearly into a tube, but leaving a narrow slit along one side between the edges, as shown in cross-section in Fig. 2. This molding is attached to the dash by means of three or more metallic caps, D D, an enlarged elevation whereof is shown in Fig. 3, and a cross-section of the same at the line a: a: in Fig. 3.

, The lower part of this cap elasps and is riveted to the top of the dash-frame. The top part is a cylinder of such size as to fit the inside of the molding, and the intermediate part narrow enough to slide in the slit in the molding. When attached to the frame, these caps are, excepting the top covered by the dash-leather B. The molding is then slipped on from oneend upon the cylindrical tops of cause it is not firm, but constantly bends under any pressure, gradually grows weaker, and finally breaks. My object is to prevent this.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- The combination of the caps D, frame A, molding U, and screws S, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

J AMES DERRIG.

Signed in presence of- O. P. HUMPHREY, JOHN H. CAMPBELL. 

